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This workshop focuses on the design and creation of Web maps. We start by reviewing cartographic decisions that are governed by the fact that you will be publishing your map to the Web: e.g., will it be shown at multiple scales, will it serve as a basemap that other content will be mashed up onto, etc…? We also discuss design decisions that produce the highest quality cartographic display onscreen, including issues that relate to color, type, symbology, and some special cartographic effects.

The primary focus of this workshop is on the map design and compilation rather than the publication process, but we touch on publishing your map as a map service so that you know about related design decisions and how to address them.

As an example, we demonstrate with the Community Basemap, compiled by Esri as an online multi-scale basemap that users can overlay with their own operational data to create maps specific to various themes of interest. It also provides a wide geographic context as users can zoom in from the global scale to the local. The basemap was compiled for from a global scale of about ˜1:591,000,000 to regional scale of about ˜1:144,000. Where higher resolution local data are available, such as Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Toronto, additional scales can extend down to ˜1:1,000.

Come join us on Saturday, July 2nd for a one-day workshop to learn how you can add design and compile multi-scale online maps. In the workshop, you will learn about:

the design and production of Web maps,

map templates and how to use them to more quickly and easily create these and other maps,

ArcMap techniques used to compile multi-scale online maps,

how to publish your maps using ArcGIS Server, and

the Community Map program.

This workshop is ideal if you are interested in learning about creating and serving online multi-scale maps using ArcGIS and/or if you are interested in Esri's Community Map program.

In this workshop, the students will learn how to make great maps with ArcGIS. We start with making a map from scratch, to learn the basics of ArcMap. Then we take a look at some maps that others have already created to learn more about best practices for making a map with ArcGIS. In the process, students become familiar with basic cartographic design principles, symbology, and type. Then we demonstrate how you can share your work as layer files, layer packages and map templates and use these resources to jump-start your mapmaking. Mining these resources for page layout, symbology, labeling, map elements and more saves you time and effort and assures that you are taking a professional cartographic approach to map making. The agenda is as follows:

This workshop focuses on the concepts and techniques involved in creating mono- and multicolor cartographic displays of the terrain as seen in plan view. You will learn about the freely-available sources of DEM data used to create terrain displays and how to transform these raw data onto a map projection surface through raster resampling. We will then show you the principles behind analytical hillshading and give you several tips for creating attractive shadings. You will next learn about hypsometric tinting schemes and how to combine tinting with hillshading. We will then examine more advanced techniques such as Swiss and MDOW hillshading, bump mapping, and combining vegetation category data with hillshading. You will then see how to create an appropriate legend for your displays using ArcGIS. The workshop will conclude with tips on outputting and printing the terrain displays that you create in one of several graphic output formats. The workshop is structured around short lectures followed by laboratory exercises using ArcGIS. Following the workshop, we would like you to create a final project map that combines what you learned in the workshop with a topic of special interest to you. The agenda is as follows:

Making communicative and attractive maps can be challenging if you are not sure of the software capabilities or the concepts behind some of the tricks and techniques that professional cartographers use. In this workshop, you will learn how you to tackle some of the challenges you have run into that prevent your maps from looking their best. A primary focus will be on understanding the message that the map is intended to communicate and consideration of the target audience (bosses, clients, boards of commissioners, the public, etc.), as well as the medium used to present the map (paper, projection, computer screen). Then we will discuss methods that can be used to efficiently and effectively convey that message to your map readers.

This workshop will focus on the use of mapping software (such as ArcGIS or Autodesk Map) to make your maps more informative and appealing. Cartographic principles and practices will be explored that relate to map compilation, symbology, labeling, and page layout. Design principles such as visual hierarchy, visual contrast, visual flow, figure-ground, balance and legibility will be discussed and techniques for achieving desirable results will be presented. Tips and tricks for map compilation will focus on the selection, generalization and classification methods used to weave the data together into the fabric of the map. Symbology and labeling methods and practices will be reviewed and tricks to achieve professional looking results will be presented. In our discussion of page layout, we will explore some of the decisions that relate to the arrangement of map elements (scale bars, titles, text blocks, legends, etc) on the page. Finally, we will demonstrate how all of these together relate to making the map communicate the message to your audience. The agenda is as follows:

In this four-hour workshop, participants are introduced to map making with ArcGIS â€“ no prior experience with the software is required. We cover the basics of how ESRI conceives of a map and how you interact with the software to make one. We also cover basics of cartographic design so that you know how to make the right decisions when you use the software. The agenda is as follows:

Since much of the time and effort performing comprehensive GIS analysis results in some form of a map, this seminar will focus on the fundamental principles of cartographic design and how to achieve good cartographic quality using ArcMap. The objective will be to create well designed, high quality maps that communicate well and are useful to the map reader. This will involve learning what should be included in a good map, what to avoid placing on the map, how to symbolize a map, and how to annotate it for fast reading.

This seminar will include delivery of basic cartographic design principles coupled with a map critique exercise. Demonstrations will be incorporated that illustrate how to achieve good cartographic representation of data using ArcMap. Diverse topics will include how to symbolize fuzzy boundaries, roads and terrain, using transparencies, color ramps and color schemes, creating coastal vignettes, using imagery and photographs as map backgrounds, qualitative and quantitative thematic mapping, and annotation. The agenda is as follows:

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